James Blunt Song Quotations

I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

The song is about love, life, fear and hope… and more than anything, you… and me…

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.